Improvement in fruit-ladders



UNITED STATES PATENT DEEIGE.

ALVA LONGCOB AND JAMES B. LON GOOE, OF PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-LADDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,2Q6, dated June 24,1873; application filed April 26, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ALVA LONGCOR and JAMESB. LONGGOR, of Paw Paw, in the county of Van Buren and State ofMichigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements and use thesame, we will now proceedto describe its construction and operation,referring to the annexed drawing, which is a perspectir e View of ourdouble ladder arranged on the bench or bed.

The bench or bed-piece for our ladder is constructed of two parallelside bars, A A, connected by suitable cross-bars, and having at each enda platform,O. This bench is supported at each end by two legs, B B,which are so arranged as to be spread apart or contracted at will tosuit the inequalities of the ground. D and E represent two laddersconstructed, in the usual manner, each of two side bars connected by aseries of rounds. These two lad ders are connected at their upper endsby a top round which is common for the two,- and which passes throughthe side bars of both, the ladder D being so much wider than the ladderE that the latter will pass within the former, as shown. The lower endof the ladder D straddles the bench, and the bottom round of the sameslips under hooks a an attached to the side bars A A, while the lowerend of the ladder E rests in notches b b at the other end of the sidebars A, and is held by hooks d 01. There are two or more sets of hooks,a, notches b, and hooks d, so that the double ladder D E may becontracted or expanded at will, and, in any position, two persons canpick the fruit, each having a basket standing on the platforms 0. Whendesired to use a long single ladder, the ladder E is turned on the topround till it comes on a line with the ladder D, when the two laddersare hooked together by hooks e e. The upper ends of both ladders D and Eare notched, as shown at a; w, to fit over the next to the top rounds.If a still longer ladder is desired, an additional single ladder may beattached in the ordinary manner.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The bench A B 0 provided with books a a and d d and "notches b b, andused in combination with the double ladder D E, all constructed andarranged substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we aflix oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

ALVA LONGGOR. JAMES B. LONGGOE. Witnesses:

E. A CRANE, GEAnLEs E. GALLIGAN.

